Dounreay spend with smaller contractors increasing
皇冠体育app Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has published figures showing that levels of contract spending with smaller businesses is increasing across their sites.
皇冠体育app aim is to spend at least 20 per cent of the annual 拢1.6 billion supply chain budget with small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) by 2015.
Dounreay is supporting the NDA to meet this target.
Dounreay鈥檚 head of Commercial, Joe Kane, explained. 鈥淒uring the last financial year we spent 17 per cent of our budget with SMEs.
鈥淭his year we expect to spend 24 per cent with them by simplifying our procurement procedures and ensuring that opportunities are more accessible for SMEs.
鈥淪MEs often bring innovation and technical experience which is instrumental in helping us to decommission the site.鈥�
SMEs are defined as an independent business employing 250 staff or less, with a turnover of up to 鈧�50m or an annual balance sheet no greater than 鈧�43m.
Read the NDA press release on their website.